Bolt-Action Slug Gun

Just wondering if anybody would be willing to admit owning one of these or know anything about them. 

http://www.tarhunt.com/tarhunt/

Unfortunately, they didn't give me the "Mountaineer" model just for name's sake.

Yes I own and have hunted with bolt action shotguns.  For both small game and deer.  When I was a kid they were very  cheap......all I could afford even used hard guns.

My brother bought a new Marlin heavy barrel slug bolt gun about 7 years ago.  HEAVY to carry.

I'll not address the usefulness or lack of a shotgun slug for deer.  Let everyone make up their own mind.

But I really never saw any reason for bolt slug guns.  They are lop-sided and not well balanced.  Most have open rear receiver rings and don't take scopes well.  The clips almost always stick down making them uncomfortable to carry.  All weigh a lot more than their pump counterparts.  They are to slow to make them viable hunting repeaters.

Second shots are not a really needed in shotgun deer hunting so the clip just adds to weight and noise, unnecessarily.

My other brother had a 40 inch barreled Marlin goose gun in the 1960s.........a funny and poor hunting weapon.

Personally I hunt with a shotgun at some farms that are in areas that do not allow rifles, and that are too open for a bow.  I use a 20 guage H&R single hammer gun, with a 4x scope.  This is a break action with a hammer.  I shoot the cheap 5 pack box of Winchester slugs (5 pak for $1.25 locally).  Never missed and never failed to kill whitetail with it.  Weight about 4 1/2 pounds.

Just my thoughts. 

Any gun manufacturer in Bloomsburg Pennsylvania probably makes very nice guns.

BEAR 

My brothers live in Iowa, and I believe they mentioned, that pistol caliber rifles will be allowed in some areas now. I'd grab up a .44 mag lever action in a heartbeat, and feel much better about putting a deer on the ground!
Shotguns are real killers, there is no doubt. However, when a wound channel exceeds about 1.25 inches, the body kicks in to stanch bleeding. On a smaller channel, the body allows the blood to flow freely, to cleanse the wound. Most shotguns, are too much of a good thing. I've seen slug shot deer go incredible distances, with multiple hits.

Bear, good questions. I believe it is traditional pistol cartridges, ie, .357 mag, .44 Mag, .44 special. To me, it just points out that the people making the laws, know little about firearms. If they would just limit velocities to 2000 fps and below, they would take care of thier trajectory worries, and up thier harvest. A bullet moving at 2000 will give a good usable trajectory to 200 yards. For a rifleman, in a set position, who has checked ranges, far beyond, assuming a Sharps.
Hell, there are inlines shooting beyond this level, and are still legal, defeating the purpose of the restrictions. God save us from bureaucrats!

Iowa allows handgun hunting now during shotgun season but only with "straight walled cartridges .35 caliber or larger" as I remember. I too heard a rumor that they were going to allow rifles in some limited areas. When I lived there I wanted nothing to do with shotgun season. It sounded like a war out there with people taking mutiple shots at impossible ranges. "Holding over the back" by unknown amounts and sending slugs every where. Then they'd look at me as if I was crazy when I was going high power (local jargon for  CF rifle) hunting across the river in Wis. They'd shoot 10 shots for every one our group shot with rifles and we were more dangerous? I only hunted late muzzleloader in Ia. Dec.20 - Jan. 10. Colder than a grave diggers ass and lonely. Just the way I liked it. RD